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Auction: 22012 - The Philatelic Collector's Series - e-Auction
Lot: 2045

The Karl U Sanne Collection of Scandinavian Postal History
Denmark
Possessions in India
1800 (10 Oct.) entire letter from the Danish-Norwegian settlement in South East India, temporarily occupied by the British from May 1801 to Aug. 1802 (and Jan. 1808 to Dec. 1814), with fine "Post Paid/TraNq" in oval (Hammond-Giles type 1). The letter is written in Dutch by the Norwegian settler Jens Koefoed (who later became Governor of Danish East India) and is addressed to Cochin in Travancore; some splits along the folds, fine

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Sold for
£9,000

Starting price
£75